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do you remember limewire

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  • #62
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    limnam wrote: »
    Esat no limits. Auto dialer at 18:01 disconnect at 07:59.....soul

    I am still bitter at receiving the letter informing me there were infact limits.


  • #63
    LifeOfBwian
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭LifeOfBwian


    I wememba winmx and wikipedia.org/wiki/Scour_Inc


  • #64
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Ronan|Raven wrote: »
    I am still bitter at receiving the letter informing me there were infact limits.

    Yep, I got one too.
    Then got UTV internet flat rate dial up.


  • #65
    Nigel Fairservice
    Registered Users, Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    I used it in college and Napster before it. I remember you'd be 95% through a download and the other person would cut you off :pac: God be with the days of 10 hour downloads!


  • #66
    Ted Plain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Ted Plain


    Download on Limewire, play on Winamp.


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  • #67
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,775 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Utorrent still going strong for me, I have HD files coming down in a few minutes, tis mental the speeds we get nowadays


  • #68
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    Ted Plain wrote: »
    Download on Limewire, play on Winamp.


    winamp it really whips the llama's ass


    Still using it.


  • #69
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Nigel Fairservice wrote: »
    I used it in college and Napster before it. I remember you'd be 95% through a download and the other person would cut you off :pac: God be with the days of 10 hour downloads!
    At least with torrents they'd resume later on.

    For some torrents there were .PAR files that contained redundant information so gaps could be filled in, in case you didn't get 100% downloaded.


  • #70
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Ronan|Raven wrote: »
    And the beautiful installers for the rips of games. And the demo scene....

    Fun fact in relation to no Cd Cracks, Max Payne 2 on steam uses the cracked version.. :P


  • #71
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Never bothered with limewire, I used winmx.


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Limewire was great, you could always mitigate the risk of viruses by listening to part of a track to ensure it wasn't dodgy.

    The only problem in our house was the first phone bill we got after installing dial-up, I think I was about 350 quid. This would have been around the turn of the millénium, so that was punts.

    Also, there was one local busybody who had figured out that if she kept dialling the house phone, she would eventually manage to knock off the Internet. I wouldn't mind, but she was only ringing in hope of getting some scandal. Can't tell you the amount of Limewire disuptions that wagon caused. She put years on me.


  • #73
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

    The only problem in our house was the first phone bill we got after installing dial-up, I think I was about 350 quid. This would have been around the turn of the millénium, so that was punts.

    Same here, we got a package with Esat whereby if we only went online after 6 it was flat rate for the month.


  • #74
    HBC08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Limewire! I remember I used it all the time. Was living in Korea at the time and it had the fastest broadband speed in the world (maybe it still does) It was reliable enough , could download Lost a few hours after it screened you in the States.Would take about 90 mins to download, this was 2005!


  • #75
    bilbot79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    It's FrostWire now isn't it?


  • #76
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Yeah. It was no eDonkey, though.


  • #77
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Never bothered with limewire, I used winmx.

    Was still online when this video went up.

    https://youtu.be/ycwuV1jRz-M


  • #78
    [Deleted User]
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Same here, we got a package with Esat whereby if we only went online after 6 it was flat rate for the month.
    they were reefing us, in fairness.

    I now pay 20 quid for all-you-can-eat data. Sure, tech has improved but back then I think we were paying 60p per hour, off peak! Which was approximately equivalent to downloading one Garth Brooks track.


  • #79
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,833 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I feel like I dodged a bullet using BeeMP3.


  • #80
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Do ye remember records though lads?..massive black discs you'd only fit half an album on each side..fair inconvenient..


  • #81
    Capt'n Midnight
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    CQD wrote: »
    Do ye remember records though lads?..massive black discs you'd only fit half an album on each side..fair inconvenient..
    Yeah I remember records


    220px-Edisongoldmoulded.jpg

    But a phonograph cylinder doesn't have sides :confused:


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    220px-Edisongoldmoulded.jpg

    But a phonograph cylinder doesn't have sides :confused:

    The hipsters will have them on the go next..


  • #83
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Charmeleon wrote: »
    I’m friends with someone on Facebook from Holland and was chatting a couple of years ago about how we know each other. They said we started chatting on Napster in 2000. I don’t remember it having a chat function but they are adamant I was downloading a fairly obscure song from them and we started a chat that moved to email and then Facebook. Anyone remember Napster chat?

    WinMX had a chat function.


  • #84
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    my first download was a butthole surfers video and it wasn't quite what i ordered


  • #85
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    At least with torrents they'd resume later on.

    For some torrents there were .PAR files that contained redundant information so gaps could be filled in, in case you didn't get 100% downloaded.

    Weren't par files more common on Usenet?


  • #86
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Ronan|Raven wrote: »
    Weren't par files more common on Usenet?

    Still are. I also believe IRC may have used it. Recall stuff from that being split.


  • #87
    dragona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭dragona


    I remember trying to download Disney films for the kiddies, Cinderella my ass, total porn!
    Had to look through all of them! Fun.......


  • #88
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    I remember Limewire.


  • #89
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Charmeleon wrote: »
    I’m friends with someone on Facebook from Holland and was chatting a couple of years ago about how we know each other. They said we started chatting on Napster in 2000. I don’t remember it having a chat function but they are adamant I was downloading a fairly obscure song from them and we started a chat that moved to email and then Facebook. Anyone remember Napster chat?

    Yeah, you could chat to someone you were downloading from. I was downloading a song one evening and the 'host' messaged me and asked me 'do you sk8?' I replied 'no', they came back with 'wrong answer' and cut off the download!:D


  • #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Ah getting songs and things on Usenet always used to be fun. "Free Agent" was the program I used back then and you would download your song over anything from 10 to 100 individual Usenet Posts. Then when you had them all you got to decode them from their Hex formatting or whatever it was in. And only then find out if you had a real useable file or not.

    IRC was a step up from that. You could leave a script running on your college PC - which other people could log into and upload stuff for "credits" which allowed them to then download stuff from your music (or porn) collection. Forgot it and left it running over the Summer of 2nd Year Holidays and returned in 3rd year to find the hard disk over flowing with - a diverse wonderland of material.

    Limewire after all that seems like Science Fiction level convenience. Never once got a virus from Limewire. Then again I was never stupid enough to download something I wanted - realize it had come in a .exe or other executable format - and decided to run it anyway :)


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  • #91
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Audiogalaxy was great. I ended up finally sticking with Soul Seek which actually still works.


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